Interdisciplinary graduate student team advances in International Supply Chain Competition

Four WPI graduate students have advanced to the regional round of the 2019 APICS Int'l Supply Chain Case Competition to be held in Boston in February, 2019.

In this round, the teams presented an end-to-end supply chain solution for a case involving Techsoft, a leading technology company specializing graphics. They developed a new version of the company’s Vision graphics card. The new card is 10% smaller than its predecessor and is breaking new ground in cost, projected to sell at half the price of the current card.

The need for faster, more affordable graphics cards that can be networked to scale according to processing needs has driven both selling prices lower and the demand for processing higher than ever before. Techsoft faces the challenge of its supply chain costs being proportionally a much larger percentage of the overall graphics card selling price.

The team will compete to advance to the final round in Las Vegas in September, 2019.